Died on This Day (28-Aug)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Nicolás Leoz | Nicolás Leoz Almirón was President of CONMEBOL from 1986 to 2013. | South American football ofifical | 90 | 1 |
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Alfred Schmidt | Alfred Schmidt was a German philosopher. | philosopher and sociologist | 81 | 8 |
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John Freeborn | John Connell Freeborn, was a fighter pilot and flying ace in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. | British flying ace | 90 | 10 |
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Isidoro Blaisten | Isidoro Blaisten was an Argentine writer. Son of David Blaisten and Dora Gliclij, Blaisten was born in Concordia, Argentina. | Argentine writer | 71 | 16 |
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Juan Muñoz | Juan Muñoz was a Spanish sculptor, working primarily in paper maché, resin and bronze. | Spanish artist | 48 | 19 |
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Carl Giles | Ronald "Carl" Giles OBE , often referred to simply as Giles, was a cartoonist best known for his work for the British newspaper the Daily Express. | Cartoonist | 78 | 25 |
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Ruth Gordon | Ruth Gordon Jones was an American actress, screenwriter, and playwright. | Actor/writer | 88 | 35 |
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Norman Jewson | Norman Jewson was an English architect-craftsman of the Arts and Crafts movement, who practised in the Cotswolds. | British architect | 91 | 45 |
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Giulio Racah | Giulio Racah רקח; February 9, 1909 – August 28, 1965) was an Italian–Israeli physicist and mathematician. | Israeli mathematician | 56 | 55 |
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Emmett Till | Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American child who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. | American murder victim | 14 | 65 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Juan Gabriel | Alberto Aguilera Valadez , known professionally as Juan Gabriel ), was a Mexican singer, songwriter and actor. | Mexican singer and songwriter | 66 | 4 |
Len Ganley | Leonard 'Len' Ganley, was a Northern Irish snooker referee. | Snooker referee | 68 | 9 | |
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Curt Lincoln | Curt "Curre" Richard Lincoln was one of the most famous race car drivers in Finland, who also played Davis Cup tennis for Finland. | Finnish racing driver | 86 | 15 |
Brian Douglas Wells | Brian Douglas Wells was an American pizza delivery man who was murdered during a complex plot involving a bank robbery, scavenger hunt, and homemade explosive device near his hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania. | American murder victim | 46 | 17 | |
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Antoni Janusz | Antoni Janusz was a Polish sportsman, soldier and pilot. | Polish aviator | 98 | 20 |
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Victorio Spinetto | Victorio Luis Spinetto was an Argentine footballer and manager. | Argentine footballer and manager | 79 | 30 |
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Harry Smythe | William Henry Smythe was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. | American baseball player | 75 | 40 |
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Theophanis Lamboukas | Theophanis Lamboukas , better known as Theo Sarapo was a French singer and actor, and the second husband of the French singer Édith Piaf. | French singer | 34 | 50 |
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John Francis O'Hara | John Francis O'Hara was an American member of the Congregation of Holy Cross and prelate of the Catholic Church. | Catholic cardinal | 72 | 60 |
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Henry Lumley Drayton | Sir Henry Lumley Drayton, was a Canadian lawyer and politician. | Canadian politician | 81 | 70 |